I Stayed Too Long

Dear Delyara, I knew it wasn’t right. Not all at once… but in small moments. The way you stopped listening. The way I started explaining myself too much. The way silence became uncomfortable. I noticed all of it. And still… I stayed. Because I kept thinking: “Maybe it will go back to how it was.” But it didn’t. And somewhere along the way… I lost myself trying to hold on to something that was already gone.